New Ways for Families is a method for helping families in separation and divorce. It is intended to inoculate families from becoming high-conflict in the court process, and can also help families with difficult co-parenting issues.

This Introduction for Professionals video illustrates a typical divorce case that is becoming high-conflict and how the court uses New Ways for Families to contain the conflict, protect the children, and help the parent co-parent effectively. This video is for demonstration purposes.

How Does it Work?A structured 4-step parenting skills method designed to reduce the impact of conflict on children in potentially high-conflict cases. This method emphasizes strengthening skills for positive future behavior, rather than focusing on past negative behavior—while still acknowledging it. It is designed to save courts time, to save parents money, and to protect children as their families re-organize in new ways after a separation or divorce. For married or never-married parents.